Drink mixer



Jan 1 19260 A. STUFFLEBEAM .DRINK MIXER Filed August 11 1924 INVENTOR ATTORNEY Patented Jan. 12, 1926.

ALBERT STUFFLEBEAM, 0F PARIS, ARKANSAS.

DRINK MIXER.

.Application filed August 11, 1924. Serial No. 731,382.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT STUFFLE' BEAM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Paris, in the county of Logan and State of Arkansas, have invented a certain new and useful Invention in Drink Mixers, of which the following is a specification, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings.

This is an invention, electrically, for the purpose of mixing drinks at the so called soda fountain. drink demand, and various devices have been used, the vaporization from which has resulted in rusting to a point where the same has been rendered inefficient and shorting to a point where the same has been rendered inefiicient, if electrically controlled.

The invention herewith has been so de signed and the arrangement is such, that the zone of mixture is both remote from and mechanically protected from theoperating mechanism, and not alone that, but the construction is such that the driving parts are so protected that operation does not splash the operator or that which is by him worn.-

Other objects of the invention, will, of course, appear from a further and more complete reading of the following specification.

On the drawing accompanying and forming a part of the specification,

igure iis an elevational view, in sectional detail of the structural device, indieating a glass, with mixer therein, and means electrically portrayed for operating the mixer.

Figure 2 is an elevational and detail view of shaft and pinion operation. 1

In these several views, similar characters 'of reference indicate similar parts.

A footed standard 3, having'a' laterally extended foot or platform 4, and serving as a base, is hollow to telescopically'receive a post 5 partly depending into said standard, and buoyed by a spring 6 internally couched in the standard The tension 01' urgency of this spring is to be measured in view of other parts to be presently named, so that at any point of upward delivery of the said parts or their pressure downward, the balance will be This is a day of mixed' in the usualmanner as for instance through a rosette 8 and froin'thence cabled in the usual manner as at 9 to a suitable connection.

Supported from the post 5 is a housing 10 in which is journaled a motor 11 fed by the. conduit 7 which is intervened by an automatic switch 12, which closes when the post I I Two shafts are employed, one 18 v a solid internal shaft, and the other a hollow shaft 19 surrounding the said solid shaft.

The solid shaft protrudes through each end of'the hollow shaft, andat the upper end enters a bearing 20 in the housing 10. The

outer shaft is borne in a bearing 21 at the base of the interior of the housing 10 andthe pinion 16 is applied to one shaft and the pinion 17 to the other. Now then when the motor operates the gear 15 urges the pinions 16 and 17 and in opposite directions, thus turning one shaft in one direction and the other shaft in the other direction.

Attached to each shaft are axially angulated equidistantly disposed paddles the angles of one set being in opposed angle to those of the other set, and by virtue of the opposed directions. These are shown lowered into the container 22, and so treat the contents therein as to 'give the same an upward and downward disturbing efliciency, simultaneously thus switching the contents in opposed and intermixing relation; This forms a mixture of the substances, that in no other way can be fully gained, and es-fl pecially in the heavier and lighter substances that form parts of mixed content.

This feature is of'importance since there is obtained a homogeneous mixture that makes a substance well welded together into a new unitary formation, giving a balanced taste and colour. i

It is understood of course, from the above that the elevation of the housin 10 causing a switch-break will render he deviceconstruction set forth naturally rotate in inoperative, while depending the device with the paddles into the container will cause the paddles torotate in opposed directigns in the container, giving the results state Having thus described this invention, I 1 claim In a drink mixer, a base for supporting the receptacle in which the liquid is to be mixed, a telesco ic standard mounted thereon, an

donate casing mounted thereon, said casing ing divided by a partition wall hav- .Qthe partition, concentric shafts journaled in said bearings, agitator blades upon said shafts, and means to drive said shafts .in

' op osite directions simultaneously.

di ed at Paris, in the county of L0 an cember, in the year of our Lord, nineteenhundred and twent -three.

. ALBER STUFFLEBEAM.

tate of Arkansas, this 14 day of e-' 

